Cannonball Read 18

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“She wondered why she bothered to try to sooth ruffled feathers that never stayed smooth for long”

The Proposal by Mary Balogh

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Plot: Hugo is happy, sort of. He is finally retired from soldiering, having acquitted himself well enough to be given a title and land. He has a little farm where he can give life instead of take it, and he wants absolutely nothing to disturb his hard, hard earned inner peace. Sure, he needs a wife, but he can probably just shout “I’m a rich, titled gentleman” anywhere at all and a suitable candidate will fall into his arms. Incidentally, Gwen is also happy. She […]

“She longed for an opportunity to demonstrate her own resourcefulness.”

The Runaway Duke by Julie Anne Long

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Plot: Rebecca is a gently bred lady, sort of. Her mother did try, and it helps that she has grown up isolated on a large property with limited access to trouble. But whatever trouble she could dig up, she would. Rebecca is bursting at the seams for a true challenge, and with frustration over her impossible dream to become a doctor. Her father, at least, gives her the run of the place, and lets her do as she’d like, sort of. It meant that she […]

“I’ve seen what you read on your Kindle. You’re in no place to judge.”

Out on a Limb by Hannah Bonam Young

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A story about an unintended pregnancy, and learning that allowing people to help you does not make you a leech. Plot: Win is a young woman still looking to find her place in the world. She has a limb difference with creates some challenges with some fine mobility tasks, but she absolutely hates being treated differently because of it. She can do just about anything anyone else can, even if it requires a bit of clever ingenuity to accomplish sometimes. One does wonder then, how […]

Too many elements at once

Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries

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Strange Bedfellows by Ariel Slamet Ries is in one word, odd. But not in the usual sense of things. The story is straightforward: a person is coming to terms with the changes in their lives, the fact they are not like their siblings as they are the “normal one” (ie: does not have powers) and is trying to deal with headache and heartaches. But there are several places where things fall short of being “smooth” and go into the odd. First, the pages are crowded. […]

Contemporary romance round up – summer reads

Can’t Get Enough by Kennedy Ryan

Along Came Amor by Alexis Daria

When Javi Dumped Mari by Mia Sosa

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Both Kennedy Ryan and Alexis Daria released the final novels in their latest romance trilogies in May of this year. I enjoyed both but they focused on very different types of characters (oddly enough, it was a flip between the characters they focused on in the second novel – so for Primas of Power, we get the cousin that always did the right thing and played by the rules in book 3 while Skyland explored that character in book 2, and Skyland focuses on the […]

Thank you to Rachel Reid/Jacob Tierney for helping me hit my Cannonball Read goal

Tough Guy by Rachel Reid

Common Goal by Rachel Reid

Role Model by Rachel Reid

The Long Game by Rachel Reid

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Heated Rivalry (the TV show) has become an absolute obsession for me. Between the fourth and fifth episode, I finished Game Changer and Heated Rivalry because I wanted to know what’s up. And then I realized The Long Game was book six in the series… and because I’m a completionist, I couldn’t just jump to that. I had to — had to! — read the entire series in order. If only I was that dedicated to other aspects of my life, perhaps I’d be able […]



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